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3. Seeds are used for flavouring eg. icecream.
6. Modern use of food for this purpose by Bushtucker industry.
11. Type of issue involving traditional indigenous knowledge is ______ property.
13. "Plum" like native fruit.
18. "Plum" with fruit in 2 distinct parts.
20. Tree group with edible seeds.
22. Food esp. meat was sometimes wrapped in this before cooking.
24. Local aboriginal name for the Native Tibouchinas.
25. Part of Lemon Aspen which is eaten.
26. Local fern eaten by aborigines.
27. Tubers which were eaten.
28. Collection of food from public land is ______ harvest.
29. Modern use of bushtucker (plural).
30. Bushtucker.
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1. Lemon ________ contains a useful oil.
2. _________ Nuts.
4. Large nut tree.
5. Genus (botanical) name of Warrigal Greens.
7. Poisonous chemicals present in some fruits.
8. Small local shrub with edible fruits.
9. Greens which must firstly be blanched before eating.
10. eaten by early settlers, seldom by aborigines.
12. Oil present in Backhousia citriodora.
14. Destroys some toxins.
15. "Plum" high in vitamin C.
16. Chemicals producing a bitter taste.
17. Local wattle which may harbour witchetty grubs.
19. Moreton Bay Chestnut is also known as ______ Bean.
21. Bush Tomato.
23. To do with rights and wrongs.
30. Moth eaten by aborigines


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Bungwall Fern
Bunya Nut
Burdekin Plum
Candle Nut
Cedar Bay Cherry
Davidson's Plum
Lemon Myrtle
Midyim
Moreton Bay Chestnut
Native Ginger
Native Raspberry
Riberry
Sandpaper Fig
Warrigal Greens
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